Meet the Orthodontist
Meet Dr. Cal Martin
Board-certified orthodontist.
Thoughtful diagnostician.
A believer that the best treatment begins by understanding the patient before choosing the appliance.
Orthodontics is about
more than moving teeth
Dr. Cal Martin believes the best orthodontic treatment begins with understanding the patient - not choosing an appliance.
That means looking carefully at the bite, the relationship of the jaws, growth and development, dental eruption, and the individual goals of every child, teen or adult he treats.
Sometimes the right answer is braces or Invisalign. Sometimes a developing transverse problem warrants earlier attention or expansion. And sometimes the best recommendation is simply to watch growth and wait.
His goal is not to treat earlier or more aggressively. It is to recognize when treatment can make a meaningful difference and choose the right treatment at the right time.
A board-certified orthodontist
Dr. Martin is a board-certified orthodontist, reflecting his commitment to continued professional development, clinical standards and thoughtful patient care.
His orthodontic training provides the foundation for comprehensive treatment with braces and Invisalign as well as the evaluation of developing bite relationships, jaw width and growth.
Dr. Martin began his undergraduate education at the University of California at Berkeley, graduating with a degree in Integrative Biology.
He then attended the prestigious University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni school of dentistry in San Francisco. He continued at the University of Oklahoma for his orthodontic residency, receiving his Masters of Science degree upon graduation.
In 2015, Dr. Martin became board certified by the American Board of Orthodontics.
He is a member of numerous professional associations and regularly attends continuing education courses in order to remain up to date on the latest information in his field.
Why growth and expansion matter
As his practice has evolved, Dr. Martin has developed a particular interest in how the upper and lower jaws develop and relate to one another — especially in children and adolescents with crossbites, narrow upper jaws and other transverse concerns.
That interest includes traditional palatal expansion, MARPE and the role skeletal maturity plays in treatment planning. The appliance, however, is never the starting point. The diagnosis comes first.
A child who appears to have a narrow palate may need expansion, observation or a different orthodontic approach entirely. The purpose of the evaluation is to understand which is appropriate.
Airway-conscious. Diagnosis driven.
Dr. Martin also believes orthodontists should pay attention when families report concerns such as chronic mouth breathing, snoring or nasal obstruction.
Those observations may be relevant to the overall picture, but they do not automatically create an orthodontic diagnosis or mean a patient needs an expander.
At Ferrari Orthodontics we
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Evaluate the orthodontic problem
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Recognize when a concern deserves
additional medical attention -
Collaborate when another
specialist is required
A personal practice
Ferrari Orthodontics was created to provide the kind of orthodontic experience Dr. Martin values himself:
personal
straightforward
highly attentive
Patients and parents should understand what he sees, why a recommendation is being made and what the alternatives are.
Questions are encouraged, and treatment should never feel like a one-size-fits-all process.